Band Of Brothers

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

The History Channel is hacking it to pieces. Looks like they are showing about 20% of it and the rest is on their cutting room floor. Shame.

[DiabloTX]

Seems to be all there to me.  But, I have only seen the complete DVD series once.

[Drifter1234]

Geez 1 hour of the show tonight must be 4 hous of the original show.  it's decent but not the show that it was on HBO.

Dissapointing but what can you do.

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Drifter1234
Geez 1 hour of the show tonight must be 4 hous of the original show.  it's decent but not the show that it was on HBO.

Dissapointing but what can you do.

Wait, so the History Channel is hacking it?  How much did we miss?

<--BoB n00b

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Wait, so the History Channel is hacking it?  How much did we miss?

<--BoB n00b

If I remember it correctly, the first complete episode (was actually two in one) ran almost three hours or close to it, with no commercials. On the History Channel it ran one and one half hours with commercials.

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
If I remember it correctly, the first complete episode (was actually two in one) ran almost three hours or close to it, with no commercials. On the History Channel it ran one and one half hours with commercials.

Well that ****ing blows.

Guess Ill have to buy the DVD anyway... capitalist pigs.

[Gixer]

Buy it on DVD worthy addition to any collection. One of my favourites.



...-Gixer

[BGBMAW]

absolutley amazing....

Xj..you must Buy it..

truly  truly American ....actually WOrld heroes...

I would die for those men.


BiGB
xoxo


PS. my favorite is when they are jumping ..and the AAA is bursting in the clouds..AWSome..effects...but i hesittate to say..favorite...it brings a lump in my throat

[XtrmeJ]

Indeed. Saw that first episode tonight and loved what I'm seeing. But it does seem like their are parts being hacked out from what I hear. Will continue to watch the hist chan version. Got the boxed set as an easter gift from relatives today:D. What luck hehe.

Yah Gixer seems like a very worth peice to any DVD collection.

BGB I feel that bud! Im 100% with you on what you said, that deserves a fine !

[DiabloTX]

Ok, from what I remember each epi was ~55 mins long.  The first epi "Curahee" was shown tonight.  Even with 3 commercial breaks (short ones at that) the show ran and hour and a half.  It ended right before the jump into Carentan (which leads into "Day of Days").  So, what was it that they edited out so much of?  

Regardless, an 'edited' version of BoB is still better than 90% of the WWII films ever made.  What a story.  What a time.  What a band of brothers.  

Who here wouldn't follow Lt. Winters to hell and back?  

[gofaster]

Seemed complete to me.  I've only seen Parts One and Two once, on DVD, no commercials.  What's missing?

About the only thing I noticed was that the first ep seemed to end sooner than the one on DVD.  If I remember right, the Part One ended shortly after they landed, but I saw Part One and Part Two nearly back to back (since it was on DVD) and I may be running them together.

The "Mail Call" afterwards was pretty cool.  Certainly worth watching.   Hopefully it will be an "extra" on the History Channel DVDs (assuming they offer them for sale).

Stick around for Part Two.  The action really gets going.

[DmdBT]

Originally posted by DiabloTX
I forgot what a complete ****up Capt. Sobel was.  Jeeeeeez....what an incompetant officer.

Sobel is a shining example of an officer that can train troops but cannot lead them into battle. He excelled in preparing the unit for combat and what it would face, but as far as having the tactical prowess to actually lead the men into a fight he fell far short. Thankfully for them the higher brass recognized this and put Sobel in a position where his talents would be most useful to the cause. Oh, and near the end when "Cpt Sobel" met up with "Major Winters" it was quite a hoot... "You salute the rank, not the man, captain." bwaaahahahaaaa

Now Lt Dyke... that was another story...

[Maverick]

Sobel is not a good example of an officer. His entire motivational technique was punitive. This is NOT how you lead troops, especially troops you expect to go into battle with. The only thing I can say for his character is that he did participate in PT with his troops instead of depending on his NCO's and LT's to do it for him.

[muckmaw]

If anyone is interested, you can do what I did when I saw BoB the first time on HBO.

It said, Richard Winters left the military and returned home to Hershey, PA where he reisdes today.

I took the time to do a search of the white pages on the internet for him, and he is listed. I wrote him a letter, thanking him for his sacrifices, and signed it from myself, my wife and my daughter.

You know, the man wrote me back, and even included a clipping he took from Time magazine about the show.

Even if he does not write you back, you can drop him a note, showing your support for a group of true american heros.

[rpm]

I don't have the DVD Box Set (yet), but they did edit some things. I didn't hear Sobel call Garnere "Gonoreah" or some of the other off color remarks. What stikes me as strange....They run a disclaimer saying it is "Historicly accurate" and has graphic scenes then edit it PG-13. This is the same network that runs "History vs Hollywood" where they blast films that do exactly what they are doing....revising history to make it safe to watch. Sorry History Channel....2 Thumbs down.